Magic of Disney's Animal Kingdom (2020–…): Season 2, Episode 4 - Okapi Bundle of Joy - full transcript
An okapi is born, a raven shines on stage, and a mandrill finds a new home.
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WOMAN: Good boy!
KENDALL: We have Scooter,
who's our female, and Zawadi,
who is our male.
Zawadi has decided
what he really wants is
to be scratched for the day.
He's like, "I want
you to scratch my belly."
You want scratches too?
This is one of the things
that we get to do with them
that makes us fall
in love with them.
Is that the
enrichment you actually want?
Your eye's closing?
Hyena are actually
a lot more like cats.
They want that attention, but
Scooter sometimes will get to
a point where
she's like, "Okay, I'm done,
I'm gonna go over here."
Zawadi, you're the
best boy in the world!
(theme music playing).
(squawks)
NARRATOR: In the land of Asia...
COREY (over speaker): Welcome
to Feathered Friends in Flight.
My name is Corey.
KATIE (over speaker):
And I'm Katie.
ARI: All right Logan,
are you ready?
Okay, here we go.
You got this.
NARRATOR: Logan the raven gets
ready for his big performance.
ARI: He comes out
just opening of the show.
Oh!
And he finds a water bottle
that was accidentally left on the stage.
(laughter)
ARI: Good job.
He's going straight to the can.
And he brings it
over to the recycle bin,
puts it in the bin, recycles it.
Yes, he got it!
Good!
And that starts the show.
(cheering)
ARI: Nicely done!
You did so good!
Good job, Logan!
(laughs).
You're so good!
We really like to feature
natural behaviors of birds,
and hopefully inspire the audience for
caring conservation action.
They can see birds
from all over the world.
(squawks)
(squawks)
Logan definitely thinks
he's the star of the show, um.
You can tell he's
extremely handsome,
and he always gets really
great reactions from the crowd.
(squawks)
They're so smart.
They've done some research
that shows that ravens actually
plan for the future.
They're really good at
problem solving and tool use,
which is pretty amazing.
NARRATOR: Logan's intelligence
keeps the team on their toes.
ARI: We just need a little
more depth in this routine.
NARRATOR: Logan's always
hungry for a challenge,
so they've come
up with a new one.
He's going to learn
how to untie knots,
starting with
trainer Corey's shoelaces.
KATIE: He's never done
anything with shoes yet?
ARI: No.
KATIE: Okay.
ARI: It's a really fun behavior
with a really smart bird,
who I think is gonna
get this pretty quick,
but you never know.
Every bird is an individual,
so we'll have to
see how Logan does.
All right, here comes Logan.
(squawks)
KATIE: Okay, I'm
gonna spin him around here,
just set him down on the ground.
Ready?
COREY: Yep.
KATIE: Okay.
Good!
Good!
This is a fun puzzle.
You give 'em a puzzle and
they figure it out immediately.
(squawks)
Good!
ARI: That went great.
NARRATOR: Logan nails it,
without breaking a sweat,
thanks to a familiar technique.
ARI: Katie saying, "Good," he
knows that good word has been
paired with food, so that he
can know he did the right thing,
and if he comes back to Katie,
he's gonna get a treat.
KATIE: Good!
ARI: The way you feel that
when you learn something new,
and you're like, "I
just did that thing, wow,
how cool was that?
I did such a good job."
That the birds must
have that same feeling.
COREY: Out in the wild, they've
gotta use their intelligence,
and there are crows that have
been seen dropping things like
nuts with a really
strong shell onto crosswalks,
so that the cars will
break them open for them.
So, they're very, very smart.
It's how they go
through their entire world.
ARI: He did awesome,
that as really good.
COREY: Yeah,
that was really good.
ARI: That first training session
couldn't have gone better.
It was like he had been doing
this his whole life already.
But it doesn't just
stop at the shoelace.
There is a second
part to this behavior.
It's pretty complex.
I hope Logan's ready.
MORI: All right, let's
see if we can find Olivia.
This animal's amazing.
Very mysterious.
A lot of people don't
know about this animal.
They are endangered species.
Very rare.
NARRATOR: At Disney's
Animal Kingdom Lodge,
a cousin of the
giraffe keeps a low profile.
MORI: All these markings are to
help them camouflage themselves
really well, specifically for
the dense rainforest habitat.
They're known as the
ghosts of the forest.
There she is!
Olivia the okapi.
Hi Olivia!
NARRATOR: Native to the
Democratic Republic of Congo,
this type of animal was
unknown outside of Africa
before the 20th century.
MORI: Okapi tongues are so long,
they can actually
lick their eyeballs.
Their tongue's
very handy for them.
It's just an extensive tool.
Let's see if she comes.
Olivia! Come on, Olivia!
Come here! Come on!
She's gonna go actually get
that browse from the back of
my vehicle there,
which is perfectly fine.
Olivia was born
at the barn here at
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Come on, Olivia.
Away from the vehicle.
She is eight years old now
and I have raised her from
the beginning, all the
way through where she is now.
In the beginning, she
does not like humans,
so I went in there
every single day to say, "Hola!"
Here comes the breakfast.
And then we started building
a beautiful relationship.
Yeah.
So, I think,"Hola,"
to her, means,
"Here comes the food."
She loves banana
and Japanese blueberry,
which is her favorite.
This is willow, but she
hasn't had it in a while.
NARRATOR: Olivia has good reason
for that healthy appetite;
she's eating for two.
MORI: It's very exciting
for me to see her pregnant,
because it's coming
around full circle.
She's pretty far along.
It's a 13 to 15 month
gestation period,
over a year where
we're waiting for this baby.
I'm gonna be with her every
step throughout this pregnancy.
I'm gonna be
watching with binoculars and
making her go, go, go, go!
NARRATOR: At The Seas
with Nemo & Friends, at Epcot,
a sassy new arrival
waits backstage for a check-up.
DR. NATALIE: Alika came
from an aquarium in Florida.
She's a 12-year-old
blacktip reef shark.
The first blacktip
reef shark here at The Seas.
NARRATOR: Found in the
Indian and Pacific Oceans,
blacktip reef sharks
are exceptionally active
and curious.
DR. NATALIE: I actually love
working with sharks and rays.
Sharks look a
little ominous sometimes,
because their teeth
are kind of out here,
but for the most part,
if you really look at them,
they're really cool animals,
and they're really
important to the ecosystem.
NARRATOR: Alika will join an open
environment with over 50 other species,
so the team needs
to make sure she's healthy.
But first, they need to
bring her in to sedate her.
DEE: We are putting a
blow-up pool into this side of
the habitat, and they're
gonna fill it up with water.
We will bring the shark into
that smaller volume of water,
and that way we
can do the anesthesia.
It, it certainly
is a large operation.
She's a smaller shark, but
she's certainly a feisty shark.
They're just
gonna slowly herd her.
Start walking in, Tina.
Good job, guys.
Take your time.
There you go. Nice.
MAN: Good job!
WOMAN: Beautiful.
DEE: Beautiful!
NARRATOR: Before
Alika's check-up starts,
the team mixes a
sedative into the water.
DEE: So, she's starting
to slow down a little bit,
so we feel
comfortable moving her.
Yep, I think y'all are ready.
Nice. Good job, guys.
WOMAN: Yep, yep,
she's in, she's good.
DR. NATALIE: So far so good.
I'm feeling like
we're in a good place.
DR. HALL: She's so pretty.
She's a very pretty shark.
NARRATOR: First up, checking
the gills with an endoscope.
DR. HALL: All of
her gills look good...
DR. NATALIE: Yay! Good job!
DR. HALL: Which
is wonderful news.
NARRATOR: Next, a
look at internal organs
with an ultrasound.
DR. NATALIE: So far so good.
The liver health, that's really
important in sharks and rays.
And so, I get, kind of,
a general idea of how big that liver is.
It lets me know how
healthy or how fit she is.
She's in really good condition.
MAN: Right?
DR. NATALIE: Yeah,
we're just about done.
All right guys, you can
get ready to wake her up.
She's awesome.
NARRATOR: The pump flushes
Alika's gills with unmedicated
salt water, to eliminate
the anesthesia from her body.
DEE: So, right now she's
starting to move a lot more.
DR. NATALIE: It's just whether or not
she can swim off without falling
to the bottom
and taking a break.
DEE: Yeah.
It's kind of
equivalent to, like,
an animal waking up and
they're stumbling around trying
to get their bearings.
DR. NATALIE: If I intervene,
I could make it worse.
She's kind of in a
dangerous phase too.
She'll bite somebody right now.
MAN: Yeah.
WOMAN: Yeah.
(overlapping chatter).
DR. NATALIE: Ooh.
She's stalling again.
DEE: You ready
for some ventilation?
Seems like it's gonna
be a slow process today.
NARRATOR: The longer
Alika stops swimming,
the lower her
oxygen levels will fall.
If she stays still for
too long, it's dangerous.
DR. NATALIE: She's been off
anesthesia for a while now,
she should have
recovered by now.
I'm trying to figure it out.
DR. NATALIE: She's not
quite recovering in a way that
I want for her too,
so we're just, kind of,
waiting it out.
NARRATOR: At The Seas,
the team gives Alika
more oxygenated water,
to help her
wake up from anesthesia.
DR. NATALIE: Maybe the handling
is causing her to not wanna go.
I wonder if we should just let
her go and see what she does.
DEE: Let's set her
down on the bottom,
back up a little bit,
and we'll, um,
maybe nudge her from behind and
see if she'll move on her own.
DR. NATALIE: That's
what we wanna see;
we wanna see her off the wall,
continuously swimming.
She's like, "Okay, when you
stop handling me, I'll go."
She wasn't ready to go until
we said, "Let's let her be."
NARRATOR: Alika moves to
another stage on her journey,
from a smaller
local aquarium to a nearly
six million gallon new home.
DR. NATALIE: Alika's
made great progress today.
Before she goes to
the main environment,
she's gonna really have to
learn how to interact with
the other sharks and
learn how to eat cooperatively.
I can tell she's a fast learner.
ARI: Don't you love it when
the birds are smarter than you?
KATIE: They're way
smarter than we are.
ARI: Okay, ready?
NARRATOR: Logan the raven
prepares for the second part
of his new behavior;
pickpocketing trainer
Corey's mic wire,
as part of the show.
ARI: Let's do a easy one.
Good.
NARRATOR: But first, a warm-up
with an activity he knows well.
ARI: No? This not
your thing this morning?
Going into the crate is
absolutely the most important behavior
that any of our birds know.
(squawks)
But today, he is choosing to
do just about anything else.
And just because he
went in the crate yesterday,
does not mean that he's good
at going in the crate today.
(squawks)
I cannot speak bird, as far
as I don't know what Logan says
when he makes any kind
of vocalization sounds.
(squawks)
But I can read his behavior,
so in a way I
speak bird a little bit.
(squawks)
NARRATOR: He's in, eventually.
But before he goes home,
the team tries another tactic.
COREY: Repetition
builds confidence,
so the behavior of going in the window
he used to do, he's done that a lot.
He's done it for months
and months and months,
so it's a nice
easy behavior for him.
ARI: We're gonna try to
keep this simple for Logan and
set him up for success.
We're just gonna try basic
behavior of him coming out of
his crate and going
right into the window.
Corey is taking the
crate in the blue room,
and we're trying it in a window
that he's super familiar with.
Okay, so whenever you're ready.
COREY: All right, ready?
ARI: Ready.
COREY: Door's open.
Hop back in the crate.
Here he comes.
ARI: He's on top of
the crate, in the blue room.
COREY: All right,
come down here.
ARI: I think that is the
end of our training session.
COREY: Yep, Logan is secure.
Logan is secure.
ARI: Well, it's always
good when we end up with
the same amount of
birds that we started with.
And he's saying, like,
"None of this is working for
me right now," we can just say,
"That's fine.
Let's maybe revisit this training
session this afternoon."
(laughs).
SHELLEY: This is exciting.
(laughs).
NARRATOR: Olivia's
in for an ultrasound.
SHELLEY: Let's do this.
KIM: See if she's
ready to come out.
Good morning, sunshine.
We wanna see that
little nugget of yours.
NARRATOR: If all goes to plan,
it will be the first
baby okapi scan at the Lodge.
MORI: Today is a big deal.
We actually wanna see
if the baby is moving,
how it's doing,
before the big exit.
SHELLEY: Touching.
MORI: Olivia, touching.
SHELLEY: I'm gonna
start the ultrasound exam.
MORI: Okay.
SHELLEY: See what
you have in there, huh?
MORI: Good girl!
Good girl, Liv.
SHELLEY: This is baby.
So, I'm gonna try to see
if I can find a heartbeat.
Okay.
Heartbeat.
JENNIFER: Ooh, right there.
SHELLEY: Yep.
We're gonna record that.
Good job, Olivia.
Yep.
So, I'm seeing ribs.
JENNIFER: Mm-hmm.
SHELLEY: Lots of movement.
JENNIFER: Oh yeah.
MORI: Ooh, yeah, you can
see it moving around in there.
SHELLEY: Very active.
MORI: Yes.
JENNIFER: Can you tell
which way it's facing?
SHELLEY: Not yet. I haven't
been able to see the head.
I'm just applying a
little bit more pressure, Mori.
MORI: No problem.
I am monitoring her behavior,
and so far she is
enjoying her buffet.
JENNIFER: Oh, happy
as a clam right now.
MORI: She's very focused
on me, which is a good thing.
JENNIFER: That
looks like a foot.
MORI: Yeah, too bad
you can't tell a gender.
(laughter)
SHELLEY: Wouldn't that be nice?
MORI: Yeah.
SHELLEY: We're happy,
because we've seen a heart rate,
we've seen ribs, we've seen a hoof,
and lots of movement.
MORI: Awesome.
We're almost at the end.
She's still focused on
the browse, which is good.
SHELLEY: The fact that we're
only seeing a head at a time
or a leg at a time
just shows how big she is.
MORI: It's an amazing
experience to see the images.
Gestation period of an
okapi is around 15 months,
and she's pretty far along.
NARRATOR: Olivia's baby
will be a welcome addition
to this endangered species.
MORI: Since she
is a first-time mom,
we actually don't know if
we're gonna have any signs that
we normally would have
with a seasoned mother,
so we have to closely
monitor her at all times.
NARRATOR: In the land of Asia...
ARI: I'm ready.
COREY: Ready?
All right, door's open.
NARRATOR: Logan tries again.
ARI: What's in there?
Is it cool? Yay!
That's the Logan
that I like to see.
Good. Cool. Love that.
Good, good. Yeah!
COREY: Good! Yeah!
Beautiful. Beautiful.
KATIE: There it is. Nice job.
ARI: So good!
Lots of treats for that one.
COREY: Yes.
ARI: All right, so, so
far it looks like, yes...
COREY: There we goo.
ARI: Good job!
Good!
Logan is doing way better.
He's definitely
into playing the game.
And just like us, you know,
some days you're ready to get
out of bed and go to
work and do your job,
and some days you just
really wanna stay in bed and
drink some hot tea and
listen to the rainfall outside.
You can do it.
COREY: Get it.
ARI: Good, good! Yeah!
COREY: Good! Yeah, beautiful!
NARRATOR: With the
warm-up knocked out,
Logan's big moment awaits.
COREY: That was a great session.
We got the whole thing together.
I think we're pretty much
ready for shows is my opinion.
What do you guys think?
ARI: I agree. That was great.
KATIE: Yeah, you
wanna try him in show?
COREY: Try him in show.
ARI: Let's do it!
KATIE: Big debut!
(squawks)
All right Logan, are
you ready for your show?
NARRATOR: At the Feathered
Friends in Flight show,
Logan prepares to perform
his new behavior on stage,
in front of a live audience.
ARI: There's always a risk
when we do this the first time
in show that
it's gonna go wrong.
I sometimes get stage fright.
I think maybe the birds do too.
Okay, are you guys
ready for the show?
ALL: Yeah!
ARI: Cool.
COREY: The first show is
always the most exciting.
You never know what
exactly is gonna happen.
KATIE: All right, ready
to go, on the way to stage.
COREY: The audience is there,
the lights are there,
the music's there,
the microphones.
KATIE: All right, here we go.
ARI: I don't know
what Logan's gonna do.
There's always some excitement
around putting a bird in show.
COREY (over speaker):
Good morning everyone!
KATIE (over speaker):
Hello there!
COREY (over speaker): Welcome
to Feathered Friends in Flight.
My name is Corey.
KATIE (over speaker):
And I'm Katie.
ARI: All right Logan,
are you ready?
Okay, here we go.
KATIE (over speaker): So, I thought
it'd be fun to take a moment,
mix things up, and maybe invite Logan the
raven to come out here,
and I could teach
him a brand-new behavior.
Do you wanna see
a training session?
(applause).
COREY (over speaker): Logan.
Okay, Logan, yeah, this is not in show,
so I guess, yeah,
completely new behavior.
This is gonna be great.
KATIE (over speaker): Yeah, and then you
could interpret what we're working on.
COREY (over speaker): Absolutely.
So, this is a raven, Logan, right here.
Very smart bird.
But here's the thing.
It doesn't matter
how smart they are.
We train them all the same way.
Positive reinforcements.
That means these birds can fly, hey,
let go of my laces!
ARI: Nice, nice.
COREY (over speaker): Did you just give
him a treat for untying my shoe?
ARI: That was awesome!
Good job, Logan!
COREY (over speaker): Keep him over there.
'Cause here's the thing.
When they get those treats,
they tend to think,
"What did I just do?
Can I do that again?
Can I get more of those treats?"
So, that's how we train every...
(laughter)
COREY (over speaker): Behavior.
KATIE (over speaker): Logan!
ARI: Oh my gosh,
look how good he is.
So good.
COREY (over speaker):
Katie, what's going on?
KATIE (over speaker): Logan, no.
Yeah, you wanna see it again?
COREY (over speaker): No,
I don't wanna see it again.
Logan, we should
probably just stop...
KATIE (over speaker):
This is hilarious.
COREY (over speaker): Can you just get him
out of here, please?
This is not what
we're talking about.
(laughter).
KATIE (over speaker):
What was that?
ARI: Yes, that
bird knows his job!
COREY: That was
my microphone cable!
ARI: That was awesome!
Logan did so good!
Yeah, good job, you did it!
Nicely done! You did so good!
Good job, Logan! Good job!
You're so good!
Woo, you did it!
KATIE: Logan was great!
ARI: That was so good!
KATIE: It was so good!
ARI: You guys did awesome.
KATIE: Thank you.
ARI: What a good show.
(squawks)
Bird behavior
changes on a daily basis.
It's what makes
this show so fun.
You never know what's
gonna happen out there.
(squawks)
MAN: High five.
COREY: High fives all around.
KATIE: High five!
Yeah! Thanks guys.
(squawks)
JARROD: Today is a
very exciting day for us.
We are commissioning our
brand-new glass pulverizes.
(shattering)
We're gonna turn on the power,
we're gonna start the trommel.
All right, we can
hear it rolling around.
We're gonna
start the pulverizer,
the swinging hammers in there.
And then we're gonna
fire up our conveyor.
NARRATOR: Each year, over
2,000 tons of glass are used
at Walt Disney World Resort.
(rattling)
JARROD: So, you can hear the
glass rattling around in there.
You can even see it over here,
going up and dropping down.
NARRATOR: That's
a lot of bottles.
But Disney has a
clever second use for them.
JARROD: All right, we're
gonna shut that completely down.
NARRATOR: Turn it into
something useful for some of
the park's favorite residents.
JARROD: 30 seconds ago,
this was a solid bottle,
and now it's this
beautiful soft sand mix.
So, that's the sand.
On the other side, over here,
this is a little bigger,
so this is more of
our gravel-like material.
The glass pulverizer processes
the glass in such a way that
it doesn't have
sharp edges anymore,
so that makes it very safe
for our animals to walk on.
Here at Disney's
Fort Wilderness resort,
it helps the horse by using
a regenerative item that comes
from right here on
Walt Disney World property,
but it actually creates
less dust on the trails,
so our horses are kicking up
and breathing in less dust as
they walk every day.
You can use the glass cullet
in pretty much any way that
you would use
normal sand or gravel.
It can be used in
beach renourishment,
filtration systems, and
horticultural solar amendments.
It's a win for everyone.
This unit that we have
here can actually process up to
2,000 pounds per hour, so a full ton
per hour can go through this machine.
It's, it's a lot of fun to see
this start out as something,
a simple item that
a guest threw away,
and use it in our animal
areas here at Walt Disney World.
(growls)
NARRATOR: As night falls,
Olivia the okapi grows restless.
Her baby is on its way.
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(licking)
NARRATOR: As
night becomes morning,
the wonderful news spreads.
MORI: It's just
an amazing thing.
We've all been waiting for it
the whole time, all the keepers.
Yeah, this is a complete circle
of life moment, coming around.
This baby is
super cute, super tiny.
I'm so proud of Olivia.
She's alert, she's focused,
and now we're gonna see how
she's bonding with the baby.
She cleaned it, she
has that long tongue,
so she can do a lot
of surface coverage.
And that's how she
stimulates the calf to stand up.
We're hoping to
see signs of nursing.
It's very important that
she stands for the baby.
We don't know if
it's a boy or girl yet,
so this is the big
drama here in the barn,
is it a boy or a girl?
I just wanna make sure
that the calf is healthy.
That's the number one goal.
NARRATOR: Over at The
Seas with Nemo & Friends,
the sharks prepare
for their breakfast.
AARON: So our sharks
here in the main environment
are trained to come on over and eat.
We do it super
early in the morning
when not many other lights are on.
So when we turn on that spotlight that's
an indication to our sharks like
"Hey, c'mon over,
it's your dinner bell, time to eat!"
NARRATOR: Sharks are trained to follow the
lights for their food,
so it's safe for other fish
to share their environment.
ALLISON: Our system's
six million gallons,
27 feet deep.
We really want that light cue
to stand out among the dark.
That beautiful indicator
of that breakfast is served.
NARRATOR: Before they
can join the other sharks,
Alika and her buddy Beau
must learn to feed using
the same light cut system.
ALLISON: Alika is insanely fast, so we
wanna give Beau the slower,
docile sand tiger shark,
a little bit
more of a head start.
So, we're waiting for
that great opportunity to turn
that light cue on.
Okay, I'm gonna
turn on this light.
Good? Come on, buddy.
Let's see if he wants his
favorite food item today.
Well done, Beau.
I'm so impressed.
NARRATOR: Now it's Alika's turn.
DEE: Oh, I saw you.
Come here.
ALLISON: She's a very curious,
fast little shark,
and so any chance she
gets to socialize or come over
and inspect, she does.
All right?
NOEL: Diner is open.
Come on, Alika.
Yeah, good girl, come on.
There you go! Good girl.
Oh, she did great.
I was a little worried at first,
'cause she kept
turning away from me,
and that's usually a clear
indicator with sharks of, like,
"Hey, I'm not interested
in what you have to eat."
This is a great step.
NARRATOR: Alika's
next step is joining
the other 50-plus species
in the main environment.
NOEL: All in all, good day.
Always a good day with Alika.
DR. NATI: Okapis are
super soft, even as adults.
And babies are just extra soft.
WOMAN: Yes.
DR. NATI: Soft as velvet.
Oh, he's so little
in that big old stall,
it's the tiniest little thing.
NARRATOR: Doctor Nati prepares
to examine the newest member of
this endangered species.
DR. NATI: In the wild, there
would be normal behaviors where
the mothers leaves
her baby in a safe place,
and then she departs
to go get food or water,
whatever she needs.
So, we try to take advantage
of that natural behavior and
examine the baby at a time
when it feels okay for Olivia to
depart as she normally would.
NARRATOR: While Olivia eats,
the team makes their move.
DR. NATI: Sorry to
wake you up little guy.
Let's make sure we have
a healthy okapi calf here.
WOMAN: Little eye balls.
DR. NATI: We
definitely have a cute one.
WOMAN: Yes.
DR. NATI: It is very calming
to them if they don't have
a lot of strong
visual stimulus during the exam.
Pia, what do you see back there?
Boy, girl? Wanna make a call?
You're gonna get a
better look than we have.
PIA: It's official, it's a boy.
ALL: It's a boy.
WOMAN: We only breed
boys here at the Lounge...
DR. NATI: I'm gonna
just clean this off.
WOMAN: For the last few years.
DR. NATI: It's
our specialty, right?
WOMAN: Yes.
WOMAN 2: Mm-hmm.
DR. NATI: That is the
cutest little tongue.
WOMAN: It's so little!
WOMAN 2: Oh, my God.
DR. NATI: I'm gonna take a look
in these big, beautiful eyes.
WOMAN: Hey, handsome.
WOMAN 2: His baby eyes.
DR. NATI: What I'm not seeing is any signs
of systemic infection in his eyes,
which in babies that's
one of the first places it
often shows, so
that's a really good sign.
Everything looks normal.
Soft, floppy baby ears.
Okay, let's listen to his heart.
(heart beats)
I'm not hearing a murmur,
which means that his heart has
made the transition from being in a womb
to being in the world.
(overlapping chatter).
WOMAN: Welcome to the world.
DR. NATI: Guys, he
looks really healthy.
WOMAN: We're so excited.
DR. NATI: Healthy okapi calf.
It doesn't get better than this.
WOMAN 2: It doesn't.
WOMAN: It really doesn't.
DR. NATI: And hopefully
he'll just grow and grow and
won't need any help from us.
WOMAN: He won't.
We're gonna be great.
DR. NATI: I would cuddle
him all day if I could,
but he needs to go
back with his mommy.
WOMAN: And dropping him down.
(sighs)
What a day.
DR. NATI: It's a magical
moment to get to see this
brand-new healthy baby.
(licking)
This is not a gift
that we get every day,
so we cherish every moment.
♪ ♪
BETH: All right, they're coming.
Slowly.
NARRATOR: A unique group of
elderly female mandrills spend
their glory years
at Animal Kingdom.
BETH: Disney has one of the
best mandrill retirement homes.
We may actually have the
only mandrill retirement home.
With this group,
we have one female, Eebi,
who is most decidedly
the dominant female.
Tammy is an animal that
gets along with everyone.
She does a really good
job of socializing and
is definitely
very socially savvy.
Cleo is a little
bit more skittish.
She and Tammy do
groom each other.
They're always interacting
and hanging out together.
NARRATOR: These are
ladies who love to lunch.
JONATHAN: This might bring
back some memories for people.
Good old ants on a log.
I'm good with the peanut butter.
Maybe not so
much the celery part.
NARRATOR: Mandrills
eat everything,
from tree bark to birds.
So, even celery
should go down well.
BETH: Oh, someone's
coming for the ant on a log.
She is scraping the
peanut butter and raisins off
of the celery and
leaving the celery.
She has the same
sense that we do,
that the celery is not the
fun part in the ants on a log.
NARRATOR: What this trio doesn't know is a
new golden girl is in town,
and she hopes to join the gang.
BETH: We are going to be
bringing in a new female.
Her name is
appropriately Princess,
which makes me really,
really excited,
and it just seems like
it's her destiny to come here.
JONATHAN: Yeah,
perfect fit, nice.
WOMAN: We're gonna
put a (inaudible).
JONATHAN: Ready? One...
BETH: Yep.
JONATHAN: Two, three.
BETH: Hi Princess.
JONATHAN: Come on, Princess.
BETH: Come on out lady.
Yeah, good girl, good girl.
That's okay, baby. That's okay.
NARRATOR: Princess is 31,
over 90 in human years,
and recently lost her
long-term male partner.
But mandrills love company,
and this is her only chance to
find a new social group.
BETH: Her partner did die, and
so she is in need of a family.
We are happy to
provide that for her.
I love brining in new mandrills,
and there's a joke on my team
that I'm the mandrill hoarder,
so I'm the one that's out
looking for these single
older females to bring in,
because I wanna provide them with that
opportunity for socialization.
JONATHAN: Let's throw
some of this good stuff.
BETH: Let's give
her what she wants.
JONATHAN: Kiwi.
BETH: Nice. Kiwi's the winner.
JONATHAN: She likes some kiwi.
BETH: Princess so far is actually looking
really, really comfortable.
She's been willing to
take food form us by hand,
which is something that can take
several days for some other animals.
We're thinking she's
pretty confident so far.
JONATHAN: Good girl.
BETH: What a nice job.
NARRATOR: Princess will
be introduced to the other
elderly mandrills, but
she may not be welcome.
BETH: When you put
several old ladies together,
you really don't know what
the dynamic is going to be.
There's a lot of drama and
there's a lot of vocalization.
It will be amazing
if they welcome her and
she fits into the group, but
we'll just have to wait and see.
WOMAN: Yeah,
we're good over here.
Amy, are you good?
AMY: I'm good.
NARRATOR: Princess waits to
see if she'll be welcomed by
Disney's other
elderly mandrills.
AMY: I'm gonna open two.
BETH: We're going to
introduce Princess to the group.
We're hoping it
goes well, but if not,
she may have to wait a little
bit before she joins them.
We're doing the
introduction inside,
just in case we
need to separate them.
We don't know how much
experience she had in her,
her early life
with other females.
I really hope they get along.
After losing her partner,
it would be great for her to
be part of a family again.
NARRATOR: Luckily, the team
knows that a few light nibbles
are the key to the
golden girls' hearts.
AMANDA: We always put a lot
of different things in there,
so that they can forage,
look for new things.
You know, it keeps them busy,
but while interacting
with one another.
Tammy loves to snack, so
she usually likes an intro.
(laughs).
NARRATOR: The
lunch table is set.
Time to mingle.
WOMAN: All right, I'm
gonna open three hydraulic.
BETH: They will
decide very quickly.
They size each other
up within seconds.
WOMAN: Opening manual.
That's Princess.
BETH: The subtle teeth
bearing is actually a good sign.
They're smiling at each other.
She's just wandering all around.
Looks good.
WOMAN: They're not displaying
any negative social behaviors
towards her.
WOMAN 2: Calm body posture,
the smiling, presenting,
greeting each other,
but in a positive way.
NARRATOR: And there are
encouraging signs that these
old mandrill ladies
like the look of each other.
AMANDA: They've been
together just for a few minutes,
so they're just trying to say,
"Hey, I'm your friend.
How are you doing?"
And so they actually
shown the most interaction
during the howdy, so
they were just doing
a little lip smacking
chatter to each other,
sniffing each other, just
getting to know each other,
and it was all very positive.
BETH: So, it's going
really well right now.
All the initial signs are good.
Now we just need to wait to see
how she settles in with the group.
ALLISON: We are so excited,
'cause we're getting ready to
guide Alika for her move
out into our main environment.
It's a super big day for her.
She's been out here
during her quarantine process,
so I think she's ready to
join the main environment.
MAN: Okay, we're
gonna start guiding her.
ALLISON: Nice and easy.
MAN: Beautiful.
ALLISON: All right.
NARRATOR: Alika's
sedated for her own safety.
This time only lightly.
ALLISON: She's a very zippy,
high-energy shark, so we wanna
knock that edge
off just a little bit,
and then we'll recover her,
so that she's fully awake
before she goes
into her new home.
NARRATOR: Alika's
first stop is a holding area
which connects to The Seas.
ALLISON: This is kind of
like our guest bedroom for
our main environment, where
she can, kind of, settle in,
get used to her surroundings
and the new animals out there.
We're just watching her
right now and see her explore.
We're also watching to
make sure that she's swimming
and navigating
really well, which she is.
NARRATOR: With the
see-through screen,
it's like a viewing
platform for her new home.
ALLISON: Kinda watching
the other side of the screen,
to see if anyone
comes and visits.
The main goal of this sea pen
for her specifically is to not
just give her the ability
to check out her new home,
but to also allow the other
animals to know she's here,
so it's not like this big
surprise party on anyone.
However they communicate,
chemically, electrically,
it's kind of like a nice little
howdy for everyone to, kind of,
know who the new resident is.
It's our first blacktip reef shark that
we've had here at The Seas,
so it's really exciting
for us to learn about her and
see what makes her tick,
and it's always fun to get
a new animal, and
she's pretty special.
She's super smart,
super curious, and super-fast.
When she is ready to go
and nice and comfortable,
we'll be able to release her
out into our main environment.
What do you think
of your new home, Alika?
Welcome to The Seas, Alika.
NARRATOR: It's less than a
week since Princess arrived,
looking for a new family,
after her
long-term partner died,
and she was left all alone.
BETH: At first she
was very reserved.
Now that she is a
little bit more comfortable,
we're starting to see she can be
pretty spunky and pretty sassy.
Princess is really awesome.
She fits in really great.
She's really, really
friendly with the keepers and
she is a great addition
to this group socially.
Tammy has found a brand-new BFF.
She is very good friends with
Princess and they are together
all the time, and
they are grooming and
they are foraging together,
which is a great sign.
In addition to breeding
animals and contributing to
the population in the future,
we are helping the
population right now,
by taking in these older
animals and providing them with
an excellent quality of life.
This cause is near
and dear to my heart,
because I don't want anyone
to be alone at the end of their life,
and I couldn't be
happier for them.
Captioned by
Cotter Media Group.
WOMAN: Good boy!
KENDALL: We have Scooter,
who's our female, and Zawadi,
who is our male.
Zawadi has decided
what he really wants is
to be scratched for the day.
He's like, "I want
you to scratch my belly."
You want scratches too?
This is one of the things
that we get to do with them
that makes us fall
in love with them.
Is that the
enrichment you actually want?
Your eye's closing?
Hyena are actually
a lot more like cats.
They want that attention, but
Scooter sometimes will get to
a point where
she's like, "Okay, I'm done,
I'm gonna go over here."
Zawadi, you're the
best boy in the world!
(theme music playing).
(squawks)
NARRATOR: In the land of Asia...
COREY (over speaker): Welcome
to Feathered Friends in Flight.
My name is Corey.
KATIE (over speaker):
And I'm Katie.
ARI: All right Logan,
are you ready?
Okay, here we go.
You got this.
NARRATOR: Logan the raven gets
ready for his big performance.
ARI: He comes out
just opening of the show.
Oh!
And he finds a water bottle
that was accidentally left on the stage.
(laughter)
ARI: Good job.
He's going straight to the can.
And he brings it
over to the recycle bin,
puts it in the bin, recycles it.
Yes, he got it!
Good!
And that starts the show.
(cheering)
ARI: Nicely done!
You did so good!
Good job, Logan!
(laughs).
You're so good!
We really like to feature
natural behaviors of birds,
and hopefully inspire the audience for
caring conservation action.
They can see birds
from all over the world.
(squawks)
(squawks)
Logan definitely thinks
he's the star of the show, um.
You can tell he's
extremely handsome,
and he always gets really
great reactions from the crowd.
(squawks)
They're so smart.
They've done some research
that shows that ravens actually
plan for the future.
They're really good at
problem solving and tool use,
which is pretty amazing.
NARRATOR: Logan's intelligence
keeps the team on their toes.
ARI: We just need a little
more depth in this routine.
NARRATOR: Logan's always
hungry for a challenge,
so they've come
up with a new one.
He's going to learn
how to untie knots,
starting with
trainer Corey's shoelaces.
KATIE: He's never done
anything with shoes yet?
ARI: No.
KATIE: Okay.
ARI: It's a really fun behavior
with a really smart bird,
who I think is gonna
get this pretty quick,
but you never know.
Every bird is an individual,
so we'll have to
see how Logan does.
All right, here comes Logan.
(squawks)
KATIE: Okay, I'm
gonna spin him around here,
just set him down on the ground.
Ready?
COREY: Yep.
KATIE: Okay.
Good!
Good!
This is a fun puzzle.
You give 'em a puzzle and
they figure it out immediately.
(squawks)
Good!
ARI: That went great.
NARRATOR: Logan nails it,
without breaking a sweat,
thanks to a familiar technique.
ARI: Katie saying, "Good," he
knows that good word has been
paired with food, so that he
can know he did the right thing,
and if he comes back to Katie,
he's gonna get a treat.
KATIE: Good!
ARI: The way you feel that
when you learn something new,
and you're like, "I
just did that thing, wow,
how cool was that?
I did such a good job."
That the birds must
have that same feeling.
COREY: Out in the wild, they've
gotta use their intelligence,
and there are crows that have
been seen dropping things like
nuts with a really
strong shell onto crosswalks,
so that the cars will
break them open for them.
So, they're very, very smart.
It's how they go
through their entire world.
ARI: He did awesome,
that as really good.
COREY: Yeah,
that was really good.
ARI: That first training session
couldn't have gone better.
It was like he had been doing
this his whole life already.
But it doesn't just
stop at the shoelace.
There is a second
part to this behavior.
It's pretty complex.
I hope Logan's ready.
MORI: All right, let's
see if we can find Olivia.
This animal's amazing.
Very mysterious.
A lot of people don't
know about this animal.
They are endangered species.
Very rare.
NARRATOR: At Disney's
Animal Kingdom Lodge,
a cousin of the
giraffe keeps a low profile.
MORI: All these markings are to
help them camouflage themselves
really well, specifically for
the dense rainforest habitat.
They're known as the
ghosts of the forest.
There she is!
Olivia the okapi.
Hi Olivia!
NARRATOR: Native to the
Democratic Republic of Congo,
this type of animal was
unknown outside of Africa
before the 20th century.
MORI: Okapi tongues are so long,
they can actually
lick their eyeballs.
Their tongue's
very handy for them.
It's just an extensive tool.
Let's see if she comes.
Olivia! Come on, Olivia!
Come here! Come on!
She's gonna go actually get
that browse from the back of
my vehicle there,
which is perfectly fine.
Olivia was born
at the barn here at
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Come on, Olivia.
Away from the vehicle.
She is eight years old now
and I have raised her from
the beginning, all the
way through where she is now.
In the beginning, she
does not like humans,
so I went in there
every single day to say, "Hola!"
Here comes the breakfast.
And then we started building
a beautiful relationship.
Yeah.
So, I think,"Hola,"
to her, means,
"Here comes the food."
She loves banana
and Japanese blueberry,
which is her favorite.
This is willow, but she
hasn't had it in a while.
NARRATOR: Olivia has good reason
for that healthy appetite;
she's eating for two.
MORI: It's very exciting
for me to see her pregnant,
because it's coming
around full circle.
She's pretty far along.
It's a 13 to 15 month
gestation period,
over a year where
we're waiting for this baby.
I'm gonna be with her every
step throughout this pregnancy.
I'm gonna be
watching with binoculars and
making her go, go, go, go!
NARRATOR: At The Seas
with Nemo & Friends, at Epcot,
a sassy new arrival
waits backstage for a check-up.
DR. NATALIE: Alika came
from an aquarium in Florida.
She's a 12-year-old
blacktip reef shark.
The first blacktip
reef shark here at The Seas.
NARRATOR: Found in the
Indian and Pacific Oceans,
blacktip reef sharks
are exceptionally active
and curious.
DR. NATALIE: I actually love
working with sharks and rays.
Sharks look a
little ominous sometimes,
because their teeth
are kind of out here,
but for the most part,
if you really look at them,
they're really cool animals,
and they're really
important to the ecosystem.
NARRATOR: Alika will join an open
environment with over 50 other species,
so the team needs
to make sure she's healthy.
But first, they need to
bring her in to sedate her.
DEE: We are putting a
blow-up pool into this side of
the habitat, and they're
gonna fill it up with water.
We will bring the shark into
that smaller volume of water,
and that way we
can do the anesthesia.
It, it certainly
is a large operation.
She's a smaller shark, but
she's certainly a feisty shark.
They're just
gonna slowly herd her.
Start walking in, Tina.
Good job, guys.
Take your time.
There you go. Nice.
MAN: Good job!
WOMAN: Beautiful.
DEE: Beautiful!
NARRATOR: Before
Alika's check-up starts,
the team mixes a
sedative into the water.
DEE: So, she's starting
to slow down a little bit,
so we feel
comfortable moving her.
Yep, I think y'all are ready.
Nice. Good job, guys.
WOMAN: Yep, yep,
she's in, she's good.
DR. NATALIE: So far so good.
I'm feeling like
we're in a good place.
DR. HALL: She's so pretty.
She's a very pretty shark.
NARRATOR: First up, checking
the gills with an endoscope.
DR. HALL: All of
her gills look good...
DR. NATALIE: Yay! Good job!
DR. HALL: Which
is wonderful news.
NARRATOR: Next, a
look at internal organs
with an ultrasound.
DR. NATALIE: So far so good.
The liver health, that's really
important in sharks and rays.
And so, I get, kind of,
a general idea of how big that liver is.
It lets me know how
healthy or how fit she is.
She's in really good condition.
MAN: Right?
DR. NATALIE: Yeah,
we're just about done.
All right guys, you can
get ready to wake her up.
She's awesome.
NARRATOR: The pump flushes
Alika's gills with unmedicated
salt water, to eliminate
the anesthesia from her body.
DEE: So, right now she's
starting to move a lot more.
DR. NATALIE: It's just whether or not
she can swim off without falling
to the bottom
and taking a break.
DEE: Yeah.
It's kind of
equivalent to, like,
an animal waking up and
they're stumbling around trying
to get their bearings.
DR. NATALIE: If I intervene,
I could make it worse.
She's kind of in a
dangerous phase too.
She'll bite somebody right now.
MAN: Yeah.
WOMAN: Yeah.
(overlapping chatter).
DR. NATALIE: Ooh.
She's stalling again.
DEE: You ready
for some ventilation?
Seems like it's gonna
be a slow process today.
NARRATOR: The longer
Alika stops swimming,
the lower her
oxygen levels will fall.
If she stays still for
too long, it's dangerous.
DR. NATALIE: She's been off
anesthesia for a while now,
she should have
recovered by now.
I'm trying to figure it out.
DR. NATALIE: She's not
quite recovering in a way that
I want for her too,
so we're just, kind of,
waiting it out.
NARRATOR: At The Seas,
the team gives Alika
more oxygenated water,
to help her
wake up from anesthesia.
DR. NATALIE: Maybe the handling
is causing her to not wanna go.
I wonder if we should just let
her go and see what she does.
DEE: Let's set her
down on the bottom,
back up a little bit,
and we'll, um,
maybe nudge her from behind and
see if she'll move on her own.
DR. NATALIE: That's
what we wanna see;
we wanna see her off the wall,
continuously swimming.
She's like, "Okay, when you
stop handling me, I'll go."
She wasn't ready to go until
we said, "Let's let her be."
NARRATOR: Alika moves to
another stage on her journey,
from a smaller
local aquarium to a nearly
six million gallon new home.
DR. NATALIE: Alika's
made great progress today.
Before she goes to
the main environment,
she's gonna really have to
learn how to interact with
the other sharks and
learn how to eat cooperatively.
I can tell she's a fast learner.
ARI: Don't you love it when
the birds are smarter than you?
KATIE: They're way
smarter than we are.
ARI: Okay, ready?
NARRATOR: Logan the raven
prepares for the second part
of his new behavior;
pickpocketing trainer
Corey's mic wire,
as part of the show.
ARI: Let's do a easy one.
Good.
NARRATOR: But first, a warm-up
with an activity he knows well.
ARI: No? This not
your thing this morning?
Going into the crate is
absolutely the most important behavior
that any of our birds know.
(squawks)
But today, he is choosing to
do just about anything else.
And just because he
went in the crate yesterday,
does not mean that he's good
at going in the crate today.
(squawks)
I cannot speak bird, as far
as I don't know what Logan says
when he makes any kind
of vocalization sounds.
(squawks)
But I can read his behavior,
so in a way I
speak bird a little bit.
(squawks)
NARRATOR: He's in, eventually.
But before he goes home,
the team tries another tactic.
COREY: Repetition
builds confidence,
so the behavior of going in the window
he used to do, he's done that a lot.
He's done it for months
and months and months,
so it's a nice
easy behavior for him.
ARI: We're gonna try to
keep this simple for Logan and
set him up for success.
We're just gonna try basic
behavior of him coming out of
his crate and going
right into the window.
Corey is taking the
crate in the blue room,
and we're trying it in a window
that he's super familiar with.
Okay, so whenever you're ready.
COREY: All right, ready?
ARI: Ready.
COREY: Door's open.
Hop back in the crate.
Here he comes.
ARI: He's on top of
the crate, in the blue room.
COREY: All right,
come down here.
ARI: I think that is the
end of our training session.
COREY: Yep, Logan is secure.
Logan is secure.
ARI: Well, it's always
good when we end up with
the same amount of
birds that we started with.
And he's saying, like,
"None of this is working for
me right now," we can just say,
"That's fine.
Let's maybe revisit this training
session this afternoon."
(laughs).
SHELLEY: This is exciting.
(laughs).
NARRATOR: Olivia's
in for an ultrasound.
SHELLEY: Let's do this.
KIM: See if she's
ready to come out.
Good morning, sunshine.
We wanna see that
little nugget of yours.
NARRATOR: If all goes to plan,
it will be the first
baby okapi scan at the Lodge.
MORI: Today is a big deal.
We actually wanna see
if the baby is moving,
how it's doing,
before the big exit.
SHELLEY: Touching.
MORI: Olivia, touching.
SHELLEY: I'm gonna
start the ultrasound exam.
MORI: Okay.
SHELLEY: See what
you have in there, huh?
MORI: Good girl!
Good girl, Liv.
SHELLEY: This is baby.
So, I'm gonna try to see
if I can find a heartbeat.
Okay.
Heartbeat.
JENNIFER: Ooh, right there.
SHELLEY: Yep.
We're gonna record that.
Good job, Olivia.
Yep.
So, I'm seeing ribs.
JENNIFER: Mm-hmm.
SHELLEY: Lots of movement.
JENNIFER: Oh yeah.
MORI: Ooh, yeah, you can
see it moving around in there.
SHELLEY: Very active.
MORI: Yes.
JENNIFER: Can you tell
which way it's facing?
SHELLEY: Not yet. I haven't
been able to see the head.
I'm just applying a
little bit more pressure, Mori.
MORI: No problem.
I am monitoring her behavior,
and so far she is
enjoying her buffet.
JENNIFER: Oh, happy
as a clam right now.
MORI: She's very focused
on me, which is a good thing.
JENNIFER: That
looks like a foot.
MORI: Yeah, too bad
you can't tell a gender.
(laughter)
SHELLEY: Wouldn't that be nice?
MORI: Yeah.
SHELLEY: We're happy,
because we've seen a heart rate,
we've seen ribs, we've seen a hoof,
and lots of movement.
MORI: Awesome.
We're almost at the end.
She's still focused on
the browse, which is good.
SHELLEY: The fact that we're
only seeing a head at a time
or a leg at a time
just shows how big she is.
MORI: It's an amazing
experience to see the images.
Gestation period of an
okapi is around 15 months,
and she's pretty far along.
NARRATOR: Olivia's baby
will be a welcome addition
to this endangered species.
MORI: Since she
is a first-time mom,
we actually don't know if
we're gonna have any signs that
we normally would have
with a seasoned mother,
so we have to closely
monitor her at all times.
NARRATOR: In the land of Asia...
ARI: I'm ready.
COREY: Ready?
All right, door's open.
NARRATOR: Logan tries again.
ARI: What's in there?
Is it cool? Yay!
That's the Logan
that I like to see.
Good. Cool. Love that.
Good, good. Yeah!
COREY: Good! Yeah!
Beautiful. Beautiful.
KATIE: There it is. Nice job.
ARI: So good!
Lots of treats for that one.
COREY: Yes.
ARI: All right, so, so
far it looks like, yes...
COREY: There we goo.
ARI: Good job!
Good!
Logan is doing way better.
He's definitely
into playing the game.
And just like us, you know,
some days you're ready to get
out of bed and go to
work and do your job,
and some days you just
really wanna stay in bed and
drink some hot tea and
listen to the rainfall outside.
You can do it.
COREY: Get it.
ARI: Good, good! Yeah!
COREY: Good! Yeah, beautiful!
NARRATOR: With the
warm-up knocked out,
Logan's big moment awaits.
COREY: That was a great session.
We got the whole thing together.
I think we're pretty much
ready for shows is my opinion.
What do you guys think?
ARI: I agree. That was great.
KATIE: Yeah, you
wanna try him in show?
COREY: Try him in show.
ARI: Let's do it!
KATIE: Big debut!
(squawks)
All right Logan, are
you ready for your show?
NARRATOR: At the Feathered
Friends in Flight show,
Logan prepares to perform
his new behavior on stage,
in front of a live audience.
ARI: There's always a risk
when we do this the first time
in show that
it's gonna go wrong.
I sometimes get stage fright.
I think maybe the birds do too.
Okay, are you guys
ready for the show?
ALL: Yeah!
ARI: Cool.
COREY: The first show is
always the most exciting.
You never know what
exactly is gonna happen.
KATIE: All right, ready
to go, on the way to stage.
COREY: The audience is there,
the lights are there,
the music's there,
the microphones.
KATIE: All right, here we go.
ARI: I don't know
what Logan's gonna do.
There's always some excitement
around putting a bird in show.
COREY (over speaker):
Good morning everyone!
KATIE (over speaker):
Hello there!
COREY (over speaker): Welcome
to Feathered Friends in Flight.
My name is Corey.
KATIE (over speaker):
And I'm Katie.
ARI: All right Logan,
are you ready?
Okay, here we go.
KATIE (over speaker): So, I thought
it'd be fun to take a moment,
mix things up, and maybe invite Logan the
raven to come out here,
and I could teach
him a brand-new behavior.
Do you wanna see
a training session?
(applause).
COREY (over speaker): Logan.
Okay, Logan, yeah, this is not in show,
so I guess, yeah,
completely new behavior.
This is gonna be great.
KATIE (over speaker): Yeah, and then you
could interpret what we're working on.
COREY (over speaker): Absolutely.
So, this is a raven, Logan, right here.
Very smart bird.
But here's the thing.
It doesn't matter
how smart they are.
We train them all the same way.
Positive reinforcements.
That means these birds can fly, hey,
let go of my laces!
ARI: Nice, nice.
COREY (over speaker): Did you just give
him a treat for untying my shoe?
ARI: That was awesome!
Good job, Logan!
COREY (over speaker): Keep him over there.
'Cause here's the thing.
When they get those treats,
they tend to think,
"What did I just do?
Can I do that again?
Can I get more of those treats?"
So, that's how we train every...
(laughter)
COREY (over speaker): Behavior.
KATIE (over speaker): Logan!
ARI: Oh my gosh,
look how good he is.
So good.
COREY (over speaker):
Katie, what's going on?
KATIE (over speaker): Logan, no.
Yeah, you wanna see it again?
COREY (over speaker): No,
I don't wanna see it again.
Logan, we should
probably just stop...
KATIE (over speaker):
This is hilarious.
COREY (over speaker): Can you just get him
out of here, please?
This is not what
we're talking about.
(laughter).
KATIE (over speaker):
What was that?
ARI: Yes, that
bird knows his job!
COREY: That was
my microphone cable!
ARI: That was awesome!
Logan did so good!
Yeah, good job, you did it!
Nicely done! You did so good!
Good job, Logan! Good job!
You're so good!
Woo, you did it!
KATIE: Logan was great!
ARI: That was so good!
KATIE: It was so good!
ARI: You guys did awesome.
KATIE: Thank you.
ARI: What a good show.
(squawks)
Bird behavior
changes on a daily basis.
It's what makes
this show so fun.
You never know what's
gonna happen out there.
(squawks)
MAN: High five.
COREY: High fives all around.
KATIE: High five!
Yeah! Thanks guys.
(squawks)
JARROD: Today is a
very exciting day for us.
We are commissioning our
brand-new glass pulverizes.
(shattering)
We're gonna turn on the power,
we're gonna start the trommel.
All right, we can
hear it rolling around.
We're gonna
start the pulverizer,
the swinging hammers in there.
And then we're gonna
fire up our conveyor.
NARRATOR: Each year, over
2,000 tons of glass are used
at Walt Disney World Resort.
(rattling)
JARROD: So, you can hear the
glass rattling around in there.
You can even see it over here,
going up and dropping down.
NARRATOR: That's
a lot of bottles.
But Disney has a
clever second use for them.
JARROD: All right, we're
gonna shut that completely down.
NARRATOR: Turn it into
something useful for some of
the park's favorite residents.
JARROD: 30 seconds ago,
this was a solid bottle,
and now it's this
beautiful soft sand mix.
So, that's the sand.
On the other side, over here,
this is a little bigger,
so this is more of
our gravel-like material.
The glass pulverizer processes
the glass in such a way that
it doesn't have
sharp edges anymore,
so that makes it very safe
for our animals to walk on.
Here at Disney's
Fort Wilderness resort,
it helps the horse by using
a regenerative item that comes
from right here on
Walt Disney World property,
but it actually creates
less dust on the trails,
so our horses are kicking up
and breathing in less dust as
they walk every day.
You can use the glass cullet
in pretty much any way that
you would use
normal sand or gravel.
It can be used in
beach renourishment,
filtration systems, and
horticultural solar amendments.
It's a win for everyone.
This unit that we have
here can actually process up to
2,000 pounds per hour, so a full ton
per hour can go through this machine.
It's, it's a lot of fun to see
this start out as something,
a simple item that
a guest threw away,
and use it in our animal
areas here at Walt Disney World.
(growls)
NARRATOR: As night falls,
Olivia the okapi grows restless.
Her baby is on its way.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
(licking)
NARRATOR: As
night becomes morning,
the wonderful news spreads.
MORI: It's just
an amazing thing.
We've all been waiting for it
the whole time, all the keepers.
Yeah, this is a complete circle
of life moment, coming around.
This baby is
super cute, super tiny.
I'm so proud of Olivia.
She's alert, she's focused,
and now we're gonna see how
she's bonding with the baby.
She cleaned it, she
has that long tongue,
so she can do a lot
of surface coverage.
And that's how she
stimulates the calf to stand up.
We're hoping to
see signs of nursing.
It's very important that
she stands for the baby.
We don't know if
it's a boy or girl yet,
so this is the big
drama here in the barn,
is it a boy or a girl?
I just wanna make sure
that the calf is healthy.
That's the number one goal.
NARRATOR: Over at The
Seas with Nemo & Friends,
the sharks prepare
for their breakfast.
AARON: So our sharks
here in the main environment
are trained to come on over and eat.
We do it super
early in the morning
when not many other lights are on.
So when we turn on that spotlight that's
an indication to our sharks like
"Hey, c'mon over,
it's your dinner bell, time to eat!"
NARRATOR: Sharks are trained to follow the
lights for their food,
so it's safe for other fish
to share their environment.
ALLISON: Our system's
six million gallons,
27 feet deep.
We really want that light cue
to stand out among the dark.
That beautiful indicator
of that breakfast is served.
NARRATOR: Before they
can join the other sharks,
Alika and her buddy Beau
must learn to feed using
the same light cut system.
ALLISON: Alika is insanely fast, so we
wanna give Beau the slower,
docile sand tiger shark,
a little bit
more of a head start.
So, we're waiting for
that great opportunity to turn
that light cue on.
Okay, I'm gonna
turn on this light.
Good? Come on, buddy.
Let's see if he wants his
favorite food item today.
Well done, Beau.
I'm so impressed.
NARRATOR: Now it's Alika's turn.
DEE: Oh, I saw you.
Come here.
ALLISON: She's a very curious,
fast little shark,
and so any chance she
gets to socialize or come over
and inspect, she does.
All right?
NOEL: Diner is open.
Come on, Alika.
Yeah, good girl, come on.
There you go! Good girl.
Oh, she did great.
I was a little worried at first,
'cause she kept
turning away from me,
and that's usually a clear
indicator with sharks of, like,
"Hey, I'm not interested
in what you have to eat."
This is a great step.
NARRATOR: Alika's
next step is joining
the other 50-plus species
in the main environment.
NOEL: All in all, good day.
Always a good day with Alika.
DR. NATI: Okapis are
super soft, even as adults.
And babies are just extra soft.
WOMAN: Yes.
DR. NATI: Soft as velvet.
Oh, he's so little
in that big old stall,
it's the tiniest little thing.
NARRATOR: Doctor Nati prepares
to examine the newest member of
this endangered species.
DR. NATI: In the wild, there
would be normal behaviors where
the mothers leaves
her baby in a safe place,
and then she departs
to go get food or water,
whatever she needs.
So, we try to take advantage
of that natural behavior and
examine the baby at a time
when it feels okay for Olivia to
depart as she normally would.
NARRATOR: While Olivia eats,
the team makes their move.
DR. NATI: Sorry to
wake you up little guy.
Let's make sure we have
a healthy okapi calf here.
WOMAN: Little eye balls.
DR. NATI: We
definitely have a cute one.
WOMAN: Yes.
DR. NATI: It is very calming
to them if they don't have
a lot of strong
visual stimulus during the exam.
Pia, what do you see back there?
Boy, girl? Wanna make a call?
You're gonna get a
better look than we have.
PIA: It's official, it's a boy.
ALL: It's a boy.
WOMAN: We only breed
boys here at the Lounge...
DR. NATI: I'm gonna
just clean this off.
WOMAN: For the last few years.
DR. NATI: It's
our specialty, right?
WOMAN: Yes.
WOMAN 2: Mm-hmm.
DR. NATI: That is the
cutest little tongue.
WOMAN: It's so little!
WOMAN 2: Oh, my God.
DR. NATI: I'm gonna take a look
in these big, beautiful eyes.
WOMAN: Hey, handsome.
WOMAN 2: His baby eyes.
DR. NATI: What I'm not seeing is any signs
of systemic infection in his eyes,
which in babies that's
one of the first places it
often shows, so
that's a really good sign.
Everything looks normal.
Soft, floppy baby ears.
Okay, let's listen to his heart.
(heart beats)
I'm not hearing a murmur,
which means that his heart has
made the transition from being in a womb
to being in the world.
(overlapping chatter).
WOMAN: Welcome to the world.
DR. NATI: Guys, he
looks really healthy.
WOMAN: We're so excited.
DR. NATI: Healthy okapi calf.
It doesn't get better than this.
WOMAN 2: It doesn't.
WOMAN: It really doesn't.
DR. NATI: And hopefully
he'll just grow and grow and
won't need any help from us.
WOMAN: He won't.
We're gonna be great.
DR. NATI: I would cuddle
him all day if I could,
but he needs to go
back with his mommy.
WOMAN: And dropping him down.
(sighs)
What a day.
DR. NATI: It's a magical
moment to get to see this
brand-new healthy baby.
(licking)
This is not a gift
that we get every day,
so we cherish every moment.
♪ ♪
BETH: All right, they're coming.
Slowly.
NARRATOR: A unique group of
elderly female mandrills spend
their glory years
at Animal Kingdom.
BETH: Disney has one of the
best mandrill retirement homes.
We may actually have the
only mandrill retirement home.
With this group,
we have one female, Eebi,
who is most decidedly
the dominant female.
Tammy is an animal that
gets along with everyone.
She does a really good
job of socializing and
is definitely
very socially savvy.
Cleo is a little
bit more skittish.
She and Tammy do
groom each other.
They're always interacting
and hanging out together.
NARRATOR: These are
ladies who love to lunch.
JONATHAN: This might bring
back some memories for people.
Good old ants on a log.
I'm good with the peanut butter.
Maybe not so
much the celery part.
NARRATOR: Mandrills
eat everything,
from tree bark to birds.
So, even celery
should go down well.
BETH: Oh, someone's
coming for the ant on a log.
She is scraping the
peanut butter and raisins off
of the celery and
leaving the celery.
She has the same
sense that we do,
that the celery is not the
fun part in the ants on a log.
NARRATOR: What this trio doesn't know is a
new golden girl is in town,
and she hopes to join the gang.
BETH: We are going to be
bringing in a new female.
Her name is
appropriately Princess,
which makes me really,
really excited,
and it just seems like
it's her destiny to come here.
JONATHAN: Yeah,
perfect fit, nice.
WOMAN: We're gonna
put a (inaudible).
JONATHAN: Ready? One...
BETH: Yep.
JONATHAN: Two, three.
BETH: Hi Princess.
JONATHAN: Come on, Princess.
BETH: Come on out lady.
Yeah, good girl, good girl.
That's okay, baby. That's okay.
NARRATOR: Princess is 31,
over 90 in human years,
and recently lost her
long-term male partner.
But mandrills love company,
and this is her only chance to
find a new social group.
BETH: Her partner did die, and
so she is in need of a family.
We are happy to
provide that for her.
I love brining in new mandrills,
and there's a joke on my team
that I'm the mandrill hoarder,
so I'm the one that's out
looking for these single
older females to bring in,
because I wanna provide them with that
opportunity for socialization.
JONATHAN: Let's throw
some of this good stuff.
BETH: Let's give
her what she wants.
JONATHAN: Kiwi.
BETH: Nice. Kiwi's the winner.
JONATHAN: She likes some kiwi.
BETH: Princess so far is actually looking
really, really comfortable.
She's been willing to
take food form us by hand,
which is something that can take
several days for some other animals.
We're thinking she's
pretty confident so far.
JONATHAN: Good girl.
BETH: What a nice job.
NARRATOR: Princess will
be introduced to the other
elderly mandrills, but
she may not be welcome.
BETH: When you put
several old ladies together,
you really don't know what
the dynamic is going to be.
There's a lot of drama and
there's a lot of vocalization.
It will be amazing
if they welcome her and
she fits into the group, but
we'll just have to wait and see.
WOMAN: Yeah,
we're good over here.
Amy, are you good?
AMY: I'm good.
NARRATOR: Princess waits to
see if she'll be welcomed by
Disney's other
elderly mandrills.
AMY: I'm gonna open two.
BETH: We're going to
introduce Princess to the group.
We're hoping it
goes well, but if not,
she may have to wait a little
bit before she joins them.
We're doing the
introduction inside,
just in case we
need to separate them.
We don't know how much
experience she had in her,
her early life
with other females.
I really hope they get along.
After losing her partner,
it would be great for her to
be part of a family again.
NARRATOR: Luckily, the team
knows that a few light nibbles
are the key to the
golden girls' hearts.
AMANDA: We always put a lot
of different things in there,
so that they can forage,
look for new things.
You know, it keeps them busy,
but while interacting
with one another.
Tammy loves to snack, so
she usually likes an intro.
(laughs).
NARRATOR: The
lunch table is set.
Time to mingle.
WOMAN: All right, I'm
gonna open three hydraulic.
BETH: They will
decide very quickly.
They size each other
up within seconds.
WOMAN: Opening manual.
That's Princess.
BETH: The subtle teeth
bearing is actually a good sign.
They're smiling at each other.
She's just wandering all around.
Looks good.
WOMAN: They're not displaying
any negative social behaviors
towards her.
WOMAN 2: Calm body posture,
the smiling, presenting,
greeting each other,
but in a positive way.
NARRATOR: And there are
encouraging signs that these
old mandrill ladies
like the look of each other.
AMANDA: They've been
together just for a few minutes,
so they're just trying to say,
"Hey, I'm your friend.
How are you doing?"
And so they actually
shown the most interaction
during the howdy, so
they were just doing
a little lip smacking
chatter to each other,
sniffing each other, just
getting to know each other,
and it was all very positive.
BETH: So, it's going
really well right now.
All the initial signs are good.
Now we just need to wait to see
how she settles in with the group.
ALLISON: We are so excited,
'cause we're getting ready to
guide Alika for her move
out into our main environment.
It's a super big day for her.
She's been out here
during her quarantine process,
so I think she's ready to
join the main environment.
MAN: Okay, we're
gonna start guiding her.
ALLISON: Nice and easy.
MAN: Beautiful.
ALLISON: All right.
NARRATOR: Alika's
sedated for her own safety.
This time only lightly.
ALLISON: She's a very zippy,
high-energy shark, so we wanna
knock that edge
off just a little bit,
and then we'll recover her,
so that she's fully awake
before she goes
into her new home.
NARRATOR: Alika's
first stop is a holding area
which connects to The Seas.
ALLISON: This is kind of
like our guest bedroom for
our main environment, where
she can, kind of, settle in,
get used to her surroundings
and the new animals out there.
We're just watching her
right now and see her explore.
We're also watching to
make sure that she's swimming
and navigating
really well, which she is.
NARRATOR: With the
see-through screen,
it's like a viewing
platform for her new home.
ALLISON: Kinda watching
the other side of the screen,
to see if anyone
comes and visits.
The main goal of this sea pen
for her specifically is to not
just give her the ability
to check out her new home,
but to also allow the other
animals to know she's here,
so it's not like this big
surprise party on anyone.
However they communicate,
chemically, electrically,
it's kind of like a nice little
howdy for everyone to, kind of,
know who the new resident is.
It's our first blacktip reef shark that
we've had here at The Seas,
so it's really exciting
for us to learn about her and
see what makes her tick,
and it's always fun to get
a new animal, and
she's pretty special.
She's super smart,
super curious, and super-fast.
When she is ready to go
and nice and comfortable,
we'll be able to release her
out into our main environment.
What do you think
of your new home, Alika?
Welcome to The Seas, Alika.
NARRATOR: It's less than a
week since Princess arrived,
looking for a new family,
after her
long-term partner died,
and she was left all alone.
BETH: At first she
was very reserved.
Now that she is a
little bit more comfortable,
we're starting to see she can be
pretty spunky and pretty sassy.
Princess is really awesome.
She fits in really great.
She's really, really
friendly with the keepers and
she is a great addition
to this group socially.
Tammy has found a brand-new BFF.
She is very good friends with
Princess and they are together
all the time, and
they are grooming and
they are foraging together,
which is a great sign.
In addition to breeding
animals and contributing to
the population in the future,
we are helping the
population right now,
by taking in these older
animals and providing them with
an excellent quality of life.
This cause is near
and dear to my heart,
because I don't want anyone
to be alone at the end of their life,
and I couldn't be
happier for them.
Captioned by
Cotter Media Group.